The Latvian Foreign Ministry said that the Baltic republics had never been a part of the USSR
Russian Foreign Ministry posted in Twitter a post about the independence of the Baltic countries at the beginning of the 90 of the last century.
- says on the page of the Russian Foreign Ministry.
This message provoked a negative reaction from the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Latvia, Edgars Rinkevics, who stated that no Soviet Baltic republics within the USSR had ever existed, and the post of the Russian Foreign Ministry was a lie.
- the head of the Latvian foreign policy department has declared.
This is not the first, and not the last statement of the Latvian authorities on the "occupation of the Baltic States by the Soviet Union." In July of this year, Russian Charge d'Affaires Vadim Vasiliev was called to the Latvian Foreign Ministry, where he was handed a note with protest over the plans of the Ministry of Defense to arrange a festive salute on October 13 this year in honor of the liberation of Riga from the Nazis. At the same time, the Latvian Foreign Ministry issued a special appeal in which he called the liberation of the Baltic republics by the Soviet troops not liberation from the fascist occupation, but the beginning of the Soviet one.
- the message said.
A similar statement on "Soviet occupation" was previously made by both Estonia and Lithuania. Frenzied Russophobia and rejection of the achievements of the Soviet Union remain the last thing the Baltic countries can still trade, the good thing is that Washington pays for it so far.
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